Bite marks, shoe prints, crime-scene fibers: Matches to suspects are often far shakier than courtroom experts claim. Better statistical methods — among them, a little beast known as the “likelihood ratio” — can cut down on wrong convictions.
A stats comic narrative, in collaboration with the award-winning cartoonist Maki Naro . . .
. . . featuring Scarface Diane, a pair of suspicious Birkenstocks, and the superhero duo Probability and Statistics.
